Senior Trade Control Analyst

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a leading global commodity trading company specialising in the Power, Gas, Oil, and LNG markets. Our client is seeking a Senior Trade Control Analyst to join their growing Trade Control team, reporting directly to the Head of Trade Control.

Based in London, this role offers an excellent opportunity to work in a dynamic, collaborative, and progressive environment where your expertise is valued and your professional development is actively supported. Hybrid working.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of assigned controls and periodic deliverables ensuring completeness, adherence to validation standards and a complete audit trail within agreed deadlines.
• Act as a senior point of escalation and subject‑matter reference for the Trade Control team across controls, systems and regulatory topics, deputizing for the Trade Control Manager where required.
• Provide day‑to‑day guidance, review and coaching to junior analysts, overseeing the quality, accuracy and timeliness of their control output and supporting their technical development.
• Perform daily trade validation activities, ensuring that all physical and financial energy transactions (with a focus on Gas, Power, Emissions, LNG and Oil derivatives) are accurately, completely, and promptly booked in the ETRM systems.
• Perform daily curve and price validation activities (spot/forward), ensuring market data accuracy in line with company procedures.
• Support the end‑of‑day process for physical and financial transactions in the relevant ETRM systems, ensuring the timely generation of Position and P&L reporting.
• Carry out mandate and unauthorized trade checks, escalating breaches in accordance with defined governance.
• Execute daily market conformity controls both physical and financial transactions.
• Support the execution and documentation of SOX and internal controls, including the collection of control evidence, identification of issues, and follow‑up on remediation.
• Monitor and manage key trade lifecycle events (e.g., futures expiry, option exercise, deal amendments and cancellations), ensuring timely escalation and correct system representation.
• Support exchange and clearing activities, including reconciliation with clearing houses, broker fee validation, margin‑related controls, and issue resolution with clearers and brokers.
• Ensure compliance with all internal and external regulations.
• Perform month‑end and quarter‑end control activities for physical and financial energy transactions (Gas, Power, Emissions and LNG).
• Monitor procedural compliance with new financial regulations (EMIR, Dodd‑Frank, REMIT and MiFID II) as part of first‑level control activities, including reporting and reconciliation.
• Lead automation and digitalisation initiatives within the Trade Control team, including the assessment of AI‑based solutions. Actively contribute to systems enhancements and change initiatives, coordinating testing, validation and go‑live activities from a Trade Control perspective.
• Provide the appropriate support to the Front Office for the approval of new products or non‑standard initiatives.

Skills and experience required

• University degree in a numeracy‑oriented discipline (e.g. Finance, Economics, Financial Engineering, Risk Management).
• Significant experience within a Product Control, Market Risk, Middle Office or Risk Management environment in a commodity or financial trading organisation. Knowledge of Gas, Power, Emissions and LNG is required.
• Knowledge of risk metrics and internal control systems applicable to physical and financial transactions.
• Good knowledge of IT systems, tools and programming languages: Microsoft Excel, VBA, Microsoft Power BI (a plus), SQL (a plus), Openlink Endur (a plus) and Python (a plus). business.
• Solid understanding of control processes in a regulated trading environment, with exposure to regulatory reporting (EMIR, REMIT, MiFID II, Dodd‑Frank) and audit interactions.

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